Of course I should know better. It’s Cadbury. I know how I feel about Cadbury chocolate. And yet, every time a new flavour appears on the store shelf, my inner Pollyanna comes out.

“Maybe this time,” something within me whispers. “Maybe this time the yearnings of your heart will be answered and Cadbury’s gimmicky ideas will translate into nuanced, classy, repeat-purchase-worthy chocolate goodness.”

Cadbury Dairy Milk Chips Ahoy! Cookie Dough

I don’t believe I’ve ever had Chips Ahoy! cookies, but if this Cadbury Chips Ahoy! Cookie Dough milk chocolate is anything to go by, I haven’t been missing much.

That said, the cookie dough pieces in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is usually pretty good, so it’s not like this chocolate had no chance of being good. LIFE IS CONFUSING SOMETIMES.

If you like Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate to begin with, then you’ll probably enjoy this; it tastes almost exactly like the plain milk chocolate block. The aroma is enticingly reminiscent of cookie dough, but the cookie dough bits aren’t strong enough in flavour to stand above the standard super-sweet very-milky vanilla-strong Dairy Milk chocolate base. All they contribute, really, is a gritty-soft textural contrast.

For me? Thumbs down.

Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel Popcorn

I had higher hopes for this Cadbury Caramel Popcorn block, particularly when I opened the package and saw how absolutely jam-packed with caramel-covered crackly popcorn it was.

Lookachoo lil wee popcorn nubbins of joy! (I do so love salty-sweet popcorn.) The aroma of this chocolate was, yes, very sweet, but it also had a rather glorious scent of fairgrounds and spun toffee.

I took a bite, and sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet so sweeeeeet sweeeeeeeeet.

DAMN YOU INNER POLLYANNA.

In its favour, this Cadbury chocolate did have a good, strong crunchiness from the popcorn, and the popcorn gave occasional salty pops that helped mitigate some of the chocolate’s overbearing sweetness.

Still, I’d rather have a bag of straight caramel corn any day.

(P.S. The Cadbury Oreo Cookie Crunch Milk Chocolate? Turns out it was this already-reviewed cookie crunch bar, rebranded. I was tricked.)

Oh, tricksie Cadbury! Rebranding tactics really aren’t a fair strategy in the chocolate aisle (or perhaps any aisle). I could have predicted the outcomes of these too, but I’m still saddened by the caramel popcorn block. It sounds like it should have potential!

OMG Hannah! I’ve been trying to track down a way to get these new Canadian Cadbury bars for months!
Do you have online banking? And if so, would I be able to transfer you funds to send them to a fellow chocaddict from Oz?

Hi Issac,
Unfortunately I had to make a decision not to do this anymore, as I was getting too many requests from people across the world to track down and send them chocolate—it was getting a bit too complicated. I’m sorry; hopefully they show up in Australia soon!

I sometimes pause in the lollie aisle and think about buying chocolate and caramel covered popcorn – usually I am strong and pass by but I think I will be weak and need to make a purchase if I see that popcorn chocolate.

Tricked by Cadbury! Shocking! I stopped buying Cadbury a long time ago when my tastebuds became more selective. It was about the same time as the contents lost 50gms in volume. I’m not sure I could handle these sweet varieties but I know my husband would have no issue at all – last Friday he came home from work with half a block of chocolate. I said, ‘Where’s the other half?’ And he said, ‘I ate it; I was stressed’ xx

I occasionally buy their hazelnut bars, but yeah, Cadbury isn’t exactly sophisticated chocolate, especially for a connoisseur like you, heh. I DO like the idea of caramel popcorn chocolate, but unfortunately I’m not into overly sweet things either!

There was one Cadbury block that I used to eat with a particular friend during sleepovers in high school, with a mousse-y filling, that I’d like to try again, but I can’t for the life of me work out which is was. I keep swearing it was nutty, she swears it wasn’t because she’s allergic and would’ve died. I STILL THINK I’M RIGHT. 😉

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Hannah. Writer, editor, firm believer in socks, gin, laughter, buttered toast, cheesecake, and semicolons. Currently back in Canberra after two years living in Canada; heart tingling to see what happens next.